Goliad Tx

This town nows has 1900 people and this is a beautiful old court house. All around the square is old time store fronts. The courthouse is really neat. Of course there is the Hangin Tree restruant. I'll bet it was busy on hangin days. Can you imagine coming from the trial and no second chance. Wonder how many innocent men were hung back then?

Goliad Texas

You'll have to double click on the sign I know it is hard to read but please read it. The sign gives you all the history on the Hangin tree. They showed you no mercy and they didn't give you a retrial like today. I was just thankful Lowell didn't have a rope. I know he has days with me. You know the old saying some things never change. That's me! Anyhow you came out of the courthouse with a rope the day of the trial and bingo.

Goliad TX

Pictures 1 & 2 are pictures of the mission in the state park west of Goliad. We took these on our way home. 3rd picture is a a live oak in the middle of the street. I love these kind of things. 4th picture is the old furniture store. Be sure and double click on this picture so you can see coffins and caskets advertised for sale. These stores were all around the courthouse square.

DISAPPOINTING TRIP

Another week gone out of our lives, just can't believe how fast our time goes. Doesn't matter whether we are here or home it is in fast gear.

Not much happening this week, Lowell went to the men's luncheon in Corpus Christie. I was glad he was able to go and wanted to go. I play cards all the time but you know him and card playing he doesn't unless the grandkids force him.

We decided to take a little trip and look for our whooping cranes. They were not there as you can see all we had was one white egret. Since I need a picture to do the blog, he was elected and that was why we had a disappointing trip.
We went to the civic center on the way home. There was supposed to be a big market type thingy there. Well there was but you talk about expensive whew to rich for our pockets. There was really nothing that we needed either. So home we came but we enjoyed looking at all the big boats on the way.

"Don't ask the Lord to guide your footsteps if you are not willing to move your feet."

CONN BROWN HARBOR

Krackels in flight and krackels on the shore. It seems we have about as many krackels as sea gulls and they are full of poop if you know what I mean.

Reflecting on God's faithfulness in the past brings hope for the future.

CONN BROWN HARBOR

Conn Brown Harbor has changed since last year. We knew last year they were putting in the fancy dry stack building. We think Aransas Pass wasted their money building this. We could not see any boats using it. The 2 bottom pictures are boats in dry dock being repaired. There seems to be a lot of that going on. Big barges on the bank getting sand blasted and repaired too.

CONN BROWN HARBOR

I tried to wish everybody a Happy New Year last week but the blog wouldn't let me publish without pictures. Talk about frustrations this blog drives me banansas and I don't need any help. But we wish all of you a very Healthy, Happy and prosperous New Year. We didn't do anything New Years eve but have a quiet dinner the two of us at the Red Lobster. Since we had had a rough 3 months it was nice.